Applies To
	Product(s):	STAAD.Pro
	Version(s):	All
	Environment:	N/A
	Area:	Steel Design
	Subarea:	General Steel Design Solutions
	Original Author:	Global Technical Support

How to perform a steel design using Chinese design code?

To design steel members per the Chinese GB 50017-2017 code, first Configure the workflow as shown in attached image.

To use the Chinese steel design workflow, the steel sections must be from the steel section table or from a user-provided table.  For specification of member properties, either the steel section library available in STAAD.Pro or user-provided table sections may be used.

For code check and Section optimization, the Chinese Steel Design workflow supports:

• Chinese - Rolled Steel table
  • I shapes
  • H shapes
  • T shapes
  • Channels
  • Double Channels
  • Angles
  • Double Angles
  • Tube
  • Pipe
• User-defined table
  • composite sections

Prismatic sections and other special composite sections can only be used with the Code Check facility. Furthermore, the design of laced and battened members is not considered. The program does not support the design of tapered section profiles per Chinese code.

In previous versions, wind and response spectra load cases per Chinese code were applied within the SSDD application. Now these loads are applied in the analytical modeling workflow within STAAD.Pro